The Art and Science of Historical Cookbooks

Hello!

New episode for your archaeogastronomical delights , is out now!

Today I have author, chef and food historian Jay Reifel in this episode as my guest, and we muse about all things "Baghdadical"!

10th century Baghdad the capital of the Islamic world in a sense it was a sensuous place.

And it produced perhaps a cookbook, more than mere recipes something extremely modern in some senses, and something that didn't exist in the West (if we want to put labels on things) for another 400 years or so!

This cookbook, "The Annals of the Caliph's Kitchen" contained a treasure of information and it was more than 500 pages long!

What's Jay's favourite recipes, what did the Abbasids loved to cook and eat and what were the ingredients that we might not know today?

Anyway I hope you'll enjoy today’s musings!

Love,

Thom & The Delicious Legacy

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